At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
**For this opportunity, the business is flexible to hire at Sr Consultant II, Lead Consultant, and Expert level depending on qualifications & interview evaluation.**Allstate Information Security (AIS) is advancing its embedded security product strategy by launching three new engineering teams dedicated to building security controls seamlessly integrated into Allstate’s technology ecosystem. This is an opportunity for an engineer to build tools for other product engineers to improve the security and developer experience of Allstate's SDLC and platforms.
The Software Engineer architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. This individual will apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. Software Engineers take pride in building solutions without compromise—demonstrating an unwavering commitment to both developer friendliness and security.
The Security Engineering group this position would be a part of is tasked with developing security controls as digital products that enhance or contribute to the enhancement of security within Allstate.Key Responsibilities
Participate in the ideation of security controls that challenge the status quo and push the organization to a higher level of embedded security
Demonstrate technical skills and aptitude needed to meet/exceed delivery velocity expectations as a full stack developer
Actively learn different technologies as needed for delivery of stories
Deliver on all phases of development work from initial kick-off, technical setup, application development, and support
Embrace approach of making collaborative, fast, local decisions; then course correct as/if needed (test/learn/iterate)
Participate in regular agile meetings (e.g., site standup, product team standup, iteration planning meeting, retrospective, lunch & learns)
Utilize Paired programming
Leverage Test-Driven Development
Establish continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
Participate in high-level and low-level component and system designs
Partner in collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders
Minimum of 3 years’ experience delivering production grade applications using (Java, Python, .NET, JavaScript etc.) with measurable impact (e.g., improved performance, reduced incidents)
Familiarity with the tools such as, Intellij-IDE or equivalent, Git, and REST APIs
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time and increased release frequency without compromising quality
Knowledge of Agile methodologies (especially Agile XP), including paired programming and test-driven development
Hands on experience architecting and deploying distributed systems in the cloud including MicroServices architectures, achieving scalability and uptime targets
Additional Criteria for Lead & Expert Levels:
Minimum of 1 year of experience coaching or mentoring engineers with evidence of improving team capability
Proven ability to lead technical design and architecture decisions for complex, distributed systems, resulting in measurable improvements in scalability, security, or performance
Track record of driving cross-team collaboration to deliver integrated solutions, achieving alignment across multiple product portfolios
Desirable Skills
Familiarity with OWASP top 10 and MITRE attack framework
Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
Experience with behavioral driven development
Knowledge of LLMs and Machine Learning
Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Cursor) and ability to leverage them for productivity gains
There are no supervisory responsibilities for this role
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Skills
Agile Methodology, CI/CD, Java, JavaScript, Microservices Architecture, Microsoft .NET, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Test Driven Development (TDD)Compensation
Compensation offered for this role ranges from $90,700 - 199,910 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.
Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
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